HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas, much of it to developing countries in Southeast Asia unprepared to safely handle hazardous waste, according to a new report released Wednesday by an environmental watchdog.
Read MoreSeattle, WA, Oct. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Basel Action Network (BAN), released a new investigative report, “Brokers of Shame: The New Tsunami of American e-Waste Exports to Asia”, documenting how a group of large U.S brokers appear to be facilitating what BAN estimates to be a billion-dollar trade in exporting electronic waste to developing countries.
Read MoreToday, the Basel Action Network (BAN), released a new investigative report, “Brokers of Shame: The New Tsunami of American e-Waste Exports to Asia”, documenting how a group of large U.S brokers appear to be facilitating what BAN estimates to be a billion-dollar trade in exporting electronic waste to developing countries.
Read MoreGeneva, Switzerland. August 15, 2025. After six major intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) meetings and numerous side meetings across almost 3 years, the effort to create a binding international treaty to minimize plastic pollution…
Read MoreBy: The Daily Sun, Staff Correspondent
Publish: Thursday, 11 February, 2021 18:00
Huge transboundary movements and trading of illegal plastic waste into Bangladesh is hampering the ecosystem of Bay of Bengal and ultimately the sustainable development of the country…
Read MoreJun 26, 2025 at 07:17 PM PDT
Karah Rucker (Anchor/News Reporter)
Malaysia says a ban on plastic waste imports from the United States will begin on Tuesday, July 1. That could create problems for California, which sends much of its plastic waste overseas.
The ban starts next week because the U.S. has failed to ratify the Basel Convention, Malaysia said. It’s one of only a few countries to do so.
Read MorePublished Jun 26, 2025 3:07 PM by The Maritime Executive
The long-awaited Hong Kong International Convention setting standards for the industry to dismantle end-of-life vessels has gone into force. It comes, however, amidst criticism that the agreement fails to address many key issues in safety and sustainability, and the concerns of beaching in ship recycling.
Read MorePublished: June 26, 2025
Updated: June 26, 2025
by Colin Staub
The Malaysian government recently published regulations indicating the country will stop all U.S.-sourced imports of scrap plastic, including e-plastics from electronics, on July 1. Reports from plastic traders indicate the flow of scrap plastic into Malaysia has already slowed.
Read MorePosted by Chris Voloschuk, Associate Editor
Published June 26, 2025
On July 1, imports of all plastic scrap will be prohibited from entering Malaysia.
Read MoreOn July 1, imports of all plastic waste will be prohibited from entering Malaysia, a country that currently receives more plastic waste from rich developed countries than any other non-OECD country.
Read More12 June 2025. Seattle, WA, USA. Nice, France. At this week’s United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, some of the world’s largest shipping lines are touting their environmental credentials while continuing to be key facilitators of the global dumping of plastic waste on developing countries.
Read MoreSeattle, USA, Bangkok, Thailand, Cape Town, South Africa. A large Maersk container ship, carrying an estimated 327 tonnes of what is believed to be hazardous waste containers scheduled to dock in Cape Town, South Africa, has disappeared following a warning to the South African government by the international watchdog group, the Basel Action Network (BAN).
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The Basel Action Network (BAN), the organization that first exposed the global dumping of electronic wastes in China (2002) and Africa (2005), and continues to campaign against the highly polluting and dangerous dumping for "recycling" due to waste exports from rich, developed countries, has launched an online whistleblowers portal.
Read MoreAfter receiving detailed alerts by the Seattle-based Basel Action Network (BAN), a global watchdog group working to prevent the dumping of toxic wastes by rich industrialized countries on developing countries, the Malaysian government announced yesterday that they detained 301 of the 453 intermodal containers BAN had identified in their alerts. Of these, 106 were found to contain illegal electronic waste (e-waste).
Read MoreOn January 1, 2021, the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments, meant to curtail and control the dumping of plastic waste in developing countries, took effect. More than three years on, we are seeing little real progress in reducing plastic waste trade or addressing unsustainable waste recycling.
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